Learn your doctrine from the texts. Improve and nourish the soul. For example, learn the irresistible grace of texts. In this way, you will see that this does not mean that grace cannot be resisted; means that when God chooses, He can overcome and overcome this resistance.
In Isaiah 57:17-19, for example. God punishes his rebellious people by wounding them and hiding their faces: “Because of their wicked greed, I was outraged and hurt him; I got angry and hid my face?(v. 17).
- But they didn’t respond with regret.
- On the contrary.
- They continued to deviated.
- They resisted: “But he strayed.
- Following the paths which he chose” (v.
- 17).
- Then we can resist grace.
- In fact.
- Stephen told Jewish leaders.
- “You always resist the Holy Ghost!”(Acts 7:51).
What does God do, then, powerless to guide those who resist repentance and integrity?The following verse says, “I have seen your ways, but I will heal you; Will I guide and comfort you again?”(V. 18).
Then, in front of the stubborn, the deviant who resist grace, God says, “I will heal you. “He’s going to “restore,” the word is “Make it complete or complete. “Term related to the word shalom, peace. Fulness and peace are mentioned in the following verse, which explains how God converts a deviant who resists grace.
Does he do that?Create praise of lips?. ” Peace, peace, [Shalom, Shalom] for those far and near,” the Lord said. “As for him, I will heal him. (V. 19). God believe what wasn’t there. . That’s how we’re saved. And that’s how we’re prevented from getting lost. God’s grace triumphs over our resistance, creating praise where they did not exist.
Does it bring shalom, shalom to those from afar and up close, fullness, fullness to those far and up close?It does so in a “restaurant”, that is, replacing resistance disease with the force of submission.
The point of irresistible grace is not that we cannot resist, we can and do it. The fact is that when God chooses, He overcomes our resistance and restores a spirit of submission. He believes. He said, “Let the light be!? It’s healing. He’s driving. He’s restoring. It’s comforting.
For this reason, we never boast of having failed to deviate. We prostrate ourselves before the Lord and with dreadful joy we thank Him for his irresistible grace.